The Death of Deadspin, Pt. 1

Mind of Micah

MWBK Creative

Comedy

4.1 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Deadspin is dead. Micah talks about the site's legacy, and his personal history as a reader. Plus, he talks about what its death means in the current media environment. In part two, Micah will talk about what it's like to be a part of an online community that suddenly dies. Support our sponsor and save: leesa.com/micah

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome
0:04.0	welcome to Mind of Myka.
0:11.0	Welcome in.
0:12.0	Today we're not going to do a read of the week.
0:15.0	We're not going to talk about my recent travels.
0:19.0	We're going to talk about last week's news stories.
0:22.0	I know that's not a very exciting thing to do but
0:25.2	there were two things that that happened last week that I felt were really
0:30.0	important and I really wanted to talk about so we're going to talk about those two things this week.
0:35.6	The first of which is today's episode.
0:39.6	It's Mind of Micah's take on the death of Deadspin. Welcome in.
0:50.0	Spend a lot of time reading dead spend over the years.
0:53.0	Perhaps as much time as I have on any website.
0:58.0	I had a love-hate relationship with dead spend.
1:02.0	There was a lot of pieces that I hate read there over the years.
1:08.0	But I'd say the last 10 years, if you clicked the D button on my computer in any web browser, it would probably, the first
1:19.0	thing that popped up would be DeadSpin. Did I agree with everything that happened to Dead Spin? No. As I mentioned,
1:26.8	I used to hate read quite a few things over there. But in case you haven't heard, DeadSpin has met its end, essentially.
1:38.0	Now the website is still sort of functioning.
1:41.0	We'll get to what's happening over there in a few minutes and my thoughts on that.
1:47.0	I do want to share a few things and I feel like my perspective is valued, or valuable to at least some people, I was at a publication or two that met its end and I was there when it happened.
2:00.0	And so in addition to being an observer and a reader of Deadspent, I feel like I have a little inside information.
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